Translating exercise intentions into behavior: Personality and social cognitive correlates

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 447-458

  Rhodes, Ryan E ^a,b   Courneya, Kerry S ^b   Jones, Lee W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Five factor model of personality; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COGNITION; EXERCISE; HUMANS; INTENTION; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041467350     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13591053030084004     Document Type: Article

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